Leif — Ristroph ((link))

That was the secret of Leif Ristroph. He didn't trust equations until he saw the dirt. He solved the mystery of the "fluttering flag" by taping a paper strip to a fan. He cracked the riddle of the "bouncing droplet" by spending three weeks in a bathtub with a rubber duck and a syringe.

At first glance, Leif Ristroph looked like he belonged in the machine shop, not the faculty lounge. His jeans were speckled with epoxy, his fingers stained with printer ink, and his desk was less an office and more a graveyard of broken drones, soggy paper airplanes, and half-eaten bagels. leif ristroph

This was the birth of his lab’s signature method: That was the secret of Leif Ristroph